Bioinformatics: Your journey of becoming Bioinformatician

Bioinformatics is originated as cross-disciplinary field and it is the need for computational solutions to research problems raised in Biomedicine. This field is evolved as computation that became cheaper and widespread during the 80s, as the Internet grew during the 90s, and as high output technologies become more common in the 2000, s. The Ranganathan noted boundaries between bioinformatics and biomedical disciplines have become distorted and indeed, recent years have seen spawning of the bioinformatics and sub-chastisements which are cheminformatics, neuroinformatic and immunoinformatic.

Apparently, the only limit to the number of bioinformatics related sub-chastisements are the numbers of disciplines themselves. This is because of growing need for a consolidative view of biological problems, cross disciplinary efforts such as these are considered increasingly important to continued scientific progress. Subsequently, commercial, government and educational institutes need to make both long-term and short-term tactical decisions about bioinformatics-based resource allocation, training and workforce education based upon their disciplinal efforts.

Even though every active area of bioinformatics research interest will likely have a ‘half-life’ of varying length, this analysis should benefit students by alerting them to the benefit of bioinformatics education and/or training, educators to become aware of the effects of bioinformatics in their fields, and for managers/administrators to better plan computational resource allocations.